Dead Center
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000G6BJVM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 407 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Andy is like an old fashioned gumshoe with a great sense of" according to Alice. Murder mystery on the light side; our hero is Andy Carpenter; a lawyer who cares; obviously a work of fiction. Andy is like an old fashioned gumshoe with a great sense of humor and irony along with a very clever mind and relatively hapless when it comes to physical confrontations. However he has lurking protective muscle in Marcus and his lady love is a police officer so he's covered. Highly recommend the Andy . Wisconsin's Case Betty Louise Andy and Tara are distressed as Laurie has moved to Wisconsin. Some time later Laurie asks Andy to come and consult on case she feels person arrested is not guilty. Andy runs into a town who religious beliefs are contray to the normal belief. This belief makes in investigation difficult as he not welcome to interview witnesses. There are a number of twists and turns in the story. The ending might surprise you.. Unrealistic Plot Lejeli You have to suspend belief to a certain degree with just about every murder mystery that’s written. One of the things I’ve liked about the first four Andy Carpenter books was that, although the stories included some rather extraordinary situations, they seemed conceivably possible to me (with the notable exception of his too-good-to-be-true girlfriend!). That all went by the wayside in this story. W
Using a voice and sensibility reminiscent of Nathan Lane (complete with verbal eye-rolls), Gardner smartly unfolds Rosenfelt's yarn, in which Carpenter is at his hilarious best—a Jersey boy out of his element in the frosty Midwest, motor-mouthing about having to put up with bone-chilling cold, unfamiliar food, a half-rekindled romance, an impossible defense and a possibly homicidal cult. From Publishers Weekly Even if Rosenfelt's novels about multimillionaire New Jersey defense attorney And
And before it's all over, the unexpected is the only thing Andy can count on.. Two coeds in Wisconsin have been found brutally stabbed to death. Yet Laurie strongly believes that the suspect, Jeremy Davidson, is innocent.Trading the refineries and factories of Paterson for the frozen pastures of Findlay, Wisconsin, Andy soon finds himself in a small town handling a big-time double homicide case. As the town's acting police chief, Laurie had to arrest a young college student with a carful of bloodstains who argued with one of the victims just before her death. He looks into Jeremy's romance with one of the victims--and the possible involvement of a bizarre religious cult--one that may sanction the most unholy, and vicious, of acts.While Andy tr